<p>New post, guys!</p>
<p>God, you guys are so worldly. I’m totally jel. </p>
<p>@anaychi
You’re so creative! Seriously, the college mail blog thing is genius.
College mail is mildly revolting to me; it’s been flooding my mailbox lately and I don’t know what to do with all the pretty, useless envelopes. After I flip through them I deliberately dump them in the trash can instead of the recycling bin (my my, won’t the environmentalists will have a fit). </p>
<p>I was touched when NYU sent me a Christmas card, though. And I love college postcards, they are THAT much less annoying!
Lol, my junior friends have contests to see who gets more college mail…(You know how upperclassmen are. So competitive.)</p>
<p>@Studious
Funny thing, I know a couple of middle schoolers at the International School of Beijing…small world. 
But China’s hot right now- all the elite rich kids are studyin’ up on their Mandarin.</p>
<p>@upinflight</p>
<p>Take the class that you’d enjoy the most and get the best grade out of. (That’s a win-win situation, right?)</p>
<p>I’m gonna be a zombie tomorrow. My English teacher gave the class an essay to write, a story in the literature book to read (about 30 pages), and a chapter in another book to analyze. I’m sick of this lady already and it hasn’t been a month yet.</p>
<p>Sent from my Droid Incredible 2</p>
<p>I was looking at the class of 2013 thread, man they have such a hard time keeping that thread alive haha. Seriously, I wonder if that’s what our thread will be like next year, junior year. This seems to be the most active “class of ____” thread.</p>
<p>11th grade schedule for 2012-2013 year.</p>
<p>AP Bio
Biotechnology
Honors Physics
Honors Pre-Calc
English 11
Us/Az History</p>
<p>Not many AP’s at my school:(! But anyways, does it seem like a good/rigorous schedule?</p>
<p>@Jpatel2014: Yep, seems pretty good to me, very similar to what I am signing up for. Except I am taking 2 AP’s.</p>
<p>@evanb1996: Me too! I had to stay up and study for 3 tests! These teachers really need to coordinate when they have tests and projects. So they don’t kill their students.</p>
<p>I had the hardest Chemistry test today!</p>
<p>@helloel: Because we are the best class, obviously.</p>
<p>I’ve decided to apply to the National Institute of Health internship. Wish me luck, guys!</p>
<p>Well, obviously haha. I just hope this thread doesn’t meet a sudden death as soon as we all are consumed by junior year. </p>
<p>Good luck with your internship! I have no idea what I’m doing this summer. Boarding school apps have really drained me. I either want to do some sort of biology/genetics program or internship or some sort of creative writing program (screenwriting would be really cool, but basically any writing). Maybe even some outdoorsy environmental science program. Any ideas anyone?</p>
<p>nate42: Ahh Chemistry’s killing me, I was doing fine until we got into the more math heavy topics. I got a 75% on the most recent test! I only felt slightly better when my teacher said that 15 students got less than a 50% out of a class of 60.</p>
<p>^Your chemistry class has 60 students in it?!</p>
<p>Helloel: Maybe you could volunteer at a local arboretum or environmental center or something, or look into creative writing camps.</p>
<p>I guess I’m lucky because I have an amazing chemistry teacher who explains everything really well - in fact, she’s what made me really like chemistry and inspired me to want to be a chemical engineer.</p>
<p>douglasgirl2018: No, my grade has 60 students in it, about 4 Chemistry classes of 15. I go to a small college prep school so we all have to take most of the same courses fresh and soph years. Everyone did so poorly that the equivalent of one whole chemistry class got below a 50 (There is no division between classes, they are randomly chosen, all of our classes are supposed to be honors).</p>
<p>xquicksilverx: Hadn’t looked into the arboretum, that’s a good idea. I had looked into writing camps, but I couldn’t find many that were residential and didn’t cost too much.</p>
<p>I have yet to find an internship or summer program that isn’t hell-bent on making a profit in my area or ridiculously competitive. I was interested in UChicago Summer Session, Harvard SSP, Summer @ Brown, etc, but those don’t seem like they’re worth my time (with the cost taken into account). I’m still aiming to apply to the Fermilab TARGET internship for high schoolers, but it’s extremely competitive and biased toward minorities. The lack of government internships in the area is disappointing.</p>
<p>I was dead set on applying to Harvard SSP, it seemed amazing. Until I decided to apply to boarding school, and if I were to get in and go, my summer activities would have to cost very little. I mean, my parents might let me go if I begged and begged, but I think it’s a lot of money on top of what my parents would have to pay for my school tuition. Also, I didn’t know if it was worth 10,000 by itself, boarding school or no boarding school. I’d seen some other college programs that were more like 6,000.</p>
<p>Just looked at UChicago’s summer programs, RIBS seems really interesting, it’s kind of what I’ve been looking for. Along with the Insight program which is price wise, a little more reasonable than other colleges.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure most of CC consists of sophomores.</p>
<p>Haha why do you think that? Because of this thread?</p>
<p>@helloel I was going to apply to Harvard SSP too, but I didn’t think that I was going to get in. Its really hard to find a good internship as a sophomore. This month I’m dedicating my time to find a good one.</p>
<p>@helloel: Wow, your class must be pretty tough! I couldn’t afford to make a 75 on a test in my class. My teacher has very few grades so i’m hoping for at least a 85 on it.</p>